Zinc Proteinate
Zinc Proteinate appears in 17 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Zinc Proteinate appears in 17 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 17
- catalogued products
- #10,499
- usage rank of 247,206
- 12
- named brands represented
- 62%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
High-volume listing for Zinc Proteinate - usage rank #10,499
- Usage rank
- #10,499
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 444 others that also appear in exactly 17 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 62%
- Mean relative depth 62% across 17 parsed labels, slot 23.9 on average. Zinc Proteinate tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Zinc Proteinate spans 12 named brands and is led by the Dog-food group. Start with Beef Meal & Rice Recipe; Butcher's Favorites Farm-raised Beef & Liver Recipe; Chicken & Beef Chunk In Gravy when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
12 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 13 of 16 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Zinc Proteinate
Products Containing Zinc Proteinate
16 busy labels from the 17 indexed products that list Zinc Proteinate:
High-volume peers for Zinc Proteinate
Zinc Proteinate sits among other busy catalog rows (17 products, mean score 98.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Zinc Proteinate page
Use the 17-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Zinc Proteinate to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Zinc Proteinate — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Zinc Proteinate? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Zinc Proteinate, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,499 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Zinc Proteinate? ▼
Zinc Proteinate ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,499 of 247,206), appearing in 17 indexed products led by Dog-food. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Zinc Proteinate so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Zinc Proteinate appears in 17 products (#10,499 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Zinc Proteinate). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.